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Rats or mice? Rats are considerably smarter than mice. They may learn to avoid traps they see other rats get caught in.

Put your traps perpendicularly across runways, if you can see tunnels through grass or hay or droppings marking regular routes. If you don't see obvious runways, put the traps next to a vertical structure like a wall, with the killing end facing the wall. Rats and mice don't like to run across open areas. If they have a choice, they will run at the base of a vertical structure, which helps protect them from predators.

They very best anit-rodent strategy is to get rid of their food sources. If you have a bird feeder, put it away for a few months at a time. No open garbage cans, no open containers of pet food, no dry pet food left out all day for free-feeding.

Pick up dead rodents with gloves and drop them quickly into a plastic bag, and seal the bag to avoid getting bitten by fleas that might carry plague. Don't let the dogs eat the rats, which might have ingested rat poison.

Cheese. A piece cut off about 1/2"x 1/2" Open the metal trigger part that holds the cheese with a small screwdriver and really push the cheese on. It will stay on for a long if you have the right kind.

John Lash

"If you run Field Trials, you learn to swallow your disappointment quickly."

"Field trials are not a game for good dogs. They're for great dogs with great training." E. Graham

This IS TEXAS. I'd be getting out the '06 if I didn't think that the neighbors would complain . I will say that rats are smart. Several years ago, I had some coming to my bird feeder during daylight! I started shooting them with a pellet gun. Great sport, but I made the mistake of shooting one when there was another one on the feeder. The second rat ran off, and I never saw them in daylight again. Finally just quit feeding the birds.

Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
(John Dewey)

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
(George Washington)